Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 release image taken down due to “malicious translation incident”

In case you're wondering why you can't download the latest Ubuntu desktop version that was released earlier this week - it seems to have a bit of a rogue translation issue.

A community contributor submitted offensive Ukrainian translations to a public, third party online service that we use to provide language support for the Ubuntu Desktop installer. Around three hours after the release of Ubuntu 23.10 this fact was brought to our attention and we immediately removed the affected images.

After completing initial triage, we believe that the incident only impacts translations presented to a user during installation through the Live CD environment (not an upgrade). During installation the translations are resident in memory only and are not propagated to the disk. If you have upgraded to Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 from a previous release, then you are not affected by this issue.

That's the difference between volunteer translations nobody checks, and proper translations that go through an extensive review process. As a translator - pay for your translations, and shit like this does not happen. Period.